Crystal River current., 1887-03-05
RANCH and RANGE.

Steps are being taken towards the erec-
tion of a Touring mill in Alamosa In the
near future.
The farmers mill at Longmont is now
turning out flour at the rate of from two to
three hundred sacks per week.
Colorado trees for Colorado transplant
ing are said to be the best. But SO long as
Colorado trees cannot always be gotten
trees nearest home should be bought.
Mr.. F. L. Martin, of Colorado Springs,
lately leased five thousand sheep to parties
who will run them i'll the South Park.
They are fine eve sheep and have been
taken to the park where they will be fed
hay until the grass springs.
Reports received at the Office of the Col
orado Cattle Growers Association from all
parts of the range country, indicate that
stock is wintering better than it has for
several years past, and now that the days
are growing longer and warmer, there are
no fears of any loss to speak Of.
1t is estimated that As 600 900 eggs are con-
sumed every day in the United States, and
yet there are people who fear the poultry
business will be over-done. What nom
sense to talk about three-quarters of an egg
being eaten every day by each man, woman
and child in the country.
Colorado has more cows and less milk
than any other State in the Union, unless
it be Texas. We have close on to half a
million of cow kind, and yet we send
quarter of million of dollars abroad to
pay for the butter and cheese our people
consume.-Field and Farm.
Stock-Agent Black of the Denver Il Rio
Grande railroad, says that during the COM
ing season of 1887, the cattle shipments
from western Colorado will be three times
greater than heretofore. Another author
ity says that more beef cattle will come
from the meridian west of Denver than
from east of it.
Mr.. +. NJ. Schaffer, the flock owner at
Hudson, writes: 'Sheep in my neighbor-
hood are doing first rate as we have had no
bad weather yet. There were over $4,000
sheep sheared near here last year, there
will be about 10000 to 5000 the coming
shearing. They are all good wooled sheep
and will average about seven pounds or
over and free from scab. Everybody has
grain and hay in, so if any bad storms come
they will not suffer. Field and Farm.
The day is rapidly approaching when the
stock business, whether the raising of cat
tie, horses or sheep, in this State must be
conducted upon an entirely different basis
from that which has obtained for so many
years. The fact that alfalfa-fed beef and
mutton is superior to all others, has now
been recognized here, and there -" be no
question that before many years have
on the public domain, where for six months
they revei in luxuriant feed and for six
more derive scant subsistence by brows-
ing on trees and brush, will have become a
thing of the past, and the alfalfa field will
attain that prominence to which it is justly
entitled and which it is rapidly reaching
Field and Farm.
Mr.. f. NJ Mcclellan, a prince dry goods
merchant of Cleveland, Ohio, with large
herd of range cattle on 25OOO acres in the
Indian Territory and IA fine-stock farm at
StrattOn. Neb., was before the Range Con-
vention last week, and made a speech that
ratified the roof and somewhat surprised
his hearers, by declaring that the only sol
vent men in the cattle business were SOL
vent because they were making money at
some other business. Among other things
he said, in comparing the business to-day
with several years ago, that one-third of the
men in the cattle business had failed, an
other were insolvent only because they had
other business out of which they made
money. Mr.. MCCLELLAN closed by offering a
plan for meeting these mOnOpOlies, against
which he entertains some very antagonistic
ideas. The plan was the organization of
an immense corporation, participated in by
all stock raisers of the United States, which
hOuld market and butcher all the stock
aised in the United States, and conduct
he selling of all the beef direct to the con
sllmers.-Field and Farm.